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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z8N_floyd-county_Floydada-TX.html
Formed from Young and Bexar
Territories
Created · Organized
August 21, 1876 · May 28, 1890
Named in honor of
Dolphin Ward Floyd
A captain who died at the Alamo
County seat, Floyd City, 1890
Floydada, since 1892
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z8M_roots-of-the-catholic-faith-in-west-texas_Floydada-TX.html
Spaniards first introduced the Catholic faith into this region when conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado passed through in a 1540s expedition to conquer the fabled cities of gold. He and his men rested at a campsite in Blanco Canyon, southea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z8K_the-battle-of-blanco-canyon_Floydada-TX.html
Of all the confrontations between the United States Army and Indians in Texas, the Battle of Blanco Canyon is identified as one of the most decisive clashes in the U.S. cavalry's campaigns against the Comanches. Indians inhabited the canyons and p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z80_the-mount-blanco-community_Floydada-TX.html
Named for tall white mesa that was a landmark on Mackenzie Trail, surveyed in 1871 by U.S. Cavalry scouting for Indians on the frontier. Near the mesa in 1877, frontiersman Henry Clay Smith (1836-1912) built a two-story stone house for speculators…
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A native of North Carolina, Henry Harrison Campbell arrived in Texas with his family in 1854. Following his service in the Confederate army, he worked as a cattle drover. In 1879, with four other investors, he founded the Matador Ranch at Ballard …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z5B_cottonwood-mott-line-camp_Floydada-TX.html
The Cottonwood Mott, named for the stand, or motte, of trees which surrounded a natural spring here, was the site of a line camp as early as 1878. Cowboys used the camp as a base from which to work, herding cattle and mending fences on the ranch. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z4Z_first-methodist-church-of-floydada_Floydada-TX.html
The roots of Methodism in Floyd County can be traced to the 1880s, prior to the founding of Floydada and the formal organization of the county. Circuit riding preachers ministered to pioneer settlers at Della Plain (5 mi. N), and occasional worshi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z4X_first-baptist-church-of-floydada_Floydada-TX.html
On July 19, 1891, The Rev. I. B. Kimbrough and a small group of worshipers met in the dugout home of Joe Arnold to organize the Floyd City Baptist Church. The congregation conducted early worship services in the North Side School building and at t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z4U_zimmerman-house_Floydada-TX.html
Oregon native Fred Zimmerman, Sr. (1885-1954) came to the Texas Panhandle in 1916. He acquired a number of farm properties in the area and began a thirty-eight-year career of farming and ranching in Floyd and Deaf Smith counties. In 1930 Zimmerman…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z4R_floydada-texas_Floydada-TX.html
In 1890 Floyd City was founded by J.K. Gwynn and M.C. Williams on land donated by James B. and Caroline V. Price of Missouri.
The county seat was awarded to Floyd City during the election held May 28, 1890.
However, a post office named Floyd…